Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
LAOZIFollow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.
More Laozi Quotes
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words.
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No disaster is worse than being discontented.
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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.
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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends… then self mastery can be sought.
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What resists, persists.
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
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If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
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Excellent warriors are not violent.
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When the highest type of people hear Tao (Truth), they diligently practice it. When the average type of people hear Tao, they half believe in it. When the lowest type of people hear Tao, they laugh at it. If they did not laugh, it would not be Tao.
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The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does not abandon them. To its accomplishments it lays no claims. It loves and nourished all things, but does not lord it over them.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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